Oceanography Vocabulary List for Quiz #3+ the words from Vocab Lists # 1&2Print out the list of words below and look up the
words in your textbook
- use a dictionary and the internet where necessary.You must look these words up before
the class presentation on that topic.....so that you will be familiar with the
vocabulary and be able to understand more of the oceanic concepts discussed in
class. If you do not get familiar with the vocabulary before class, then
you will be frustrated as you frantically try to scribble all the words and
concepts down during class presentations...!

acidic pH

alkaline (basic) pH

BCD or dive vest

benthic

bloom

buoyancy

cold fronts

compressed air

convection

Coriolis Effect

cyclone

DCS, or the bends

density

dive belt

doldrums

fast ice

filter feeding

glaciers

gyres

halocline

horse latitudes

hurricane

hyperbaric recompression chamber

hypertonic

hypotonic

ice floes

icebergs

isotonic

lateral line

latitude

longitude

mixing barrier

negative buoyancy

nekton

neutral.

nitrogen narcosis

nutrients

osmosis

pack ice

pancake ice

parts per thousand

pH scale

phytoplankton

polar ice

positive buoyancy

psi

pycnocline

salinity

sessile

sonar

squeeze

temperate

the afternoon effect or shadow zone

the tropics

thermocline

tornado

typhoon

upwelling current

warm fronts

When you think that you know the words well enough, take Oceanography
Vocabulary Quiz 3 an unlimited number of times....but your last score will count.
Again, you may take this quiz an unlimited number of times (before the deadline
in the semester calendar); however, your last score counts!

Note: to compensate for possible computer and internet
connection problems,
you may take the Vocabulary Quizzes an unlimited number of times....
however, your last score is the one that countsAll quizzes time out at noon of the deadline
day posted in the course calendar
(refer to your course syllabus).

Login to Blackboardand choose "Geology 12"
the choose "Course Materials"
and then choose the Quiz that you want to take

Login Instructions for Students
Username: Your newUser Identification Number,
which is a unique number beginning with a W and containing 8 digits.

Password: the first two letters of your first name, followed by the first
two letters of your last name (all lowercase), followed by the last four
digits of your new User Identification Number.

Note that the username and password formats have changed from
previous semesters for LPC students. Using the last four digits of your old
Student ID number will not work.

For example,
Maria Valdez with a User Identification Number of W12345678 would log in as:

Your instructor can not add or delete students from the
computer's roster.
Your instructor also does not have passwords (if you
forget them).

Because computers and internet connections can always have unexpected problems, you will get
unlimited attempts for each quiz - and the highest score counts. If
you can not access or run the quizzes from home, try the on-campus
computer lab in Building 800. You may also come to the professor's office hours for help if you do not understand how to login to
Blackboard.

If you have computer problems, and if
you have waited until the day before a quiz is due (or the day that a quiz
is due), you will not have any time to ask the professor for help and you
will be stuck with a zero score for that quiz. Always leave
yourself plenty of time to be able to come to the professor's office hours
for help BEFORE the quiz is due!

I also recommend that you run these Vocabulary quizzes from a
computer with a high-speed broadband connection....if you have a dial-up
connection at home, you may have much more success running these quizzes at
school (the school provides high-speed, non-dial-up internet access for students who
purchase the Computer Access Card)